It is encouraging to see pioneers like Dr. Jim Gordon, of the Center for Mind - Body Medicine and Georgetown University in Washington, DC, promote this transformation of health care, as we move away from a central focus on drugs and surgery at the core with self - care and CAM techniques at the periphery to a central focus on self - care, with prevention and wellness as a focus and thus
less need for drugs and surgery.
Not exact matches
Either you
need to take more of the
drugs those nice doctors prescribe
for you or read the koran
less.
Parents who do have a baby in bed with them
for even part of the night must never smoke or use substances, such as alcohol or
drugs (including prescription
drugs that make you sleep heavily), that may impair arousal, making them
less aware of their baby's
needs or position in the bed.
«During my tenure as Governor, I have held the line on the rate of cost escalation
for health care providers and managed care plans; implemented reimbursement reforms to right - size hospital inpatient reimbursement; made investments in critically
needed,
less costly outpatient and primary care services; and implemented measures to make New York Medicaid a smarter purchaser of prescription
drugs and transportation services
for patients.
Placebos are, however,
less good news
for clinical researchers,
drug developers and the like, who
need to be able to disentangle the physical actions of «real» interventions from...
«Given that only one new
drug has been approved
for lupus patients in the last 50 years, there is a pressing
need for more specific and
less toxic
drugs to treat it and other autoimmune disorders,» says Means, who is an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Even if a
lesser severity of perinatal asphyxia is accounted
for, cooling therapy has increased the number of healthy survivors and there are very few children with epilepsy
needing drug treatment.
For decades, transplant experts have observed that liver transplant recipients often
need less anti-rejection medication, known as immunosuppressive
drugs, than recipients of other solid organs.
«The therapeutic doses are
less than a nanogram per kilogram of body weight - compared to milligram - per - kilogram concentrations
needed for most pharmaceutical
drugs.»
Patients who received a
drug - eluting stent did, as expected, have
less need for a second revascularization procedure, but not to the level surgeons might have expected, Bonaa said.
«The data, particularly
for low back pain, seems to show the longer you're on it the
less effective it is, and the more of the
drug you
need to get an effect,» Michna said.
A 2013 study in the Journal of Internal Medicine found that people with plaque psoriasis who used SSRIs, a type of antidepressant
drug, were
less likely to
need additional, stronger psoriasis treatments after taking the SSRI
for six months.
Today, the Food and
Drug Administration has endorsed PDCAAS - method
for food labeling in the U.S. Applicable to humans, the PDCAAS is patterned after the amino - acid
needs of 2 - 5 year old humans, since this group matches or exceeds amino - acid requirements
for older children and adults (who require
less than infants).
Finally, the supplements partisans accuse the pharmaceutical industry and mainstream medicine of being greedy, out
for the big bucks, and eager to cover up miracle
drugs that would end disease and, in consequence, eliminate the
need for their own
less effective
drugs.
Additionally, nutraceuticals (supplements) like chondroprotectants (joint supplements), omega fatty acids (fish, flax seed, or other oils), and anti-oxidants having minimal potential
for side effects can improve tissue health so that
less frequent or smaller doses of
drugs are
needed.
They could help your dog to regain movement and feel
less pain without the
need for prescription
drugs.
Health Canada's reclassification of the levonorgestrel «morning - after pill» as a nonprescription
drug, thus permitting pharmacists to dispense this postcoital oral contraceptive directly to women who
need it, when they
need it, is welcome news (see page 861).1
Less welcome is the «behind the counter» classification of levonorgestrel 0.75 mg (Plan B) by the provinces, which makes consultation with a pharmacist mandatory
for any woman seeking to avoid an unintended pregnancy in this way.